Quashie Kevin Quashie

Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

In Black Aliveness, or A Poetics of Being, Kevin Quashie imagines a Black world in which one encounters Black being as it is rather than only as it exists in the shadow of anti-Black violence. As such, he makes a case for Black aliveness even in the face of the persistence of death in Black life and Black study. Centrally, Quashie theorizes aliveness through the aesthetics of poetry, reading poetic inhabitance in Black feminist literary texts by Lucille Clifton, Audre Lorde, June Jordan, Toni Morrison, and Evie Shockley, among others, showing how their philosophical and creative thinking constitutes worldmaking. This worldmaking conceptualizes Blackness as capacious, relational beyond the normative terms of recognition-Blackness as a condition of oneness. Reading for poetic aliveness, then, becomes a means of exploring Black being rather than nonbeing and animates the ethical question "e;how to be."e; In this way, Quashie offers a Black feminist philosophy of being, which is nothing less than a philosophy of the becoming of the Black world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781478021322
• Artikelnr.: 66282990

Autorenporträt

Kevin Quashie is Professor of English at Brown University and the author of The Sovereignty of Quiet: Beyond Resistance in Black Culture and Black Women, Identity, and Cultural Theory: (Un)Becoming the Subject.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Aliveness  1
1. Aliveness and Relation  15
2. Aliveness and Oneness  31
3. Aliveness and Aesthetics  57
4. Aliveness in Two Essays  83
5. Aliveness and Ethics  107
Conclusion. Again, Aliveness  141
Acknowledgments  155
Notes  157
Bibliography  219
Permissions  227
Index  229